Pair of Newburg boys to Missouri Class 1 Track Championships

Two members of the Newburg High School track team have advanced to this week’s Missouri Class 1 Track and Field Championships through last Saturday’s Class 1 Section 2 Meet, held at Lamar High School.

Seniors Kylon Bales, in the boys’ pole vault, and senior Trevor Constable, in the boys’ 300-meter hurdles, have moved on to the Class 1 Championships, to be held Friday and Saturday at Dwight Reed Stadium on the campus of Lincoln University in Jefferson City.

The top four finishers in each event qualified from sectional competition to the state championships.

Bales returns to state by finishing third in the pole vault Saturday with a vault of 12-6.

Constable moved on in the 300-meter hurdles with a fourth-place finish in a time of :44.06.

Constable just missed qualification in the high jump, finishing fifth at 5-10. He was actually tied with Lockwood’s Brady Waters for fourth place in the high jump at 5-10. Waters won the tiebreaker and the state berth on misses.

The Newburg Lady Wolves were shut out of state qualification. Senior Renate Richardson, trying to make it to state for a third consecutive year, just missed twice, finishing fifth in the 300-meter hurdles and sixth in the 100-meter hurdles.

Newburg’s other girls’ sectional competitor, junior Jordan Baumgardner, was seventh in the high jump and eighth in the 200-meter dash.

Here are the Newburg Class 1, Section 2 placers, with state-qualifiers in bold-face: